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Summary of useful mobile apps for mobile learning and thought provoking ideas for wikitextbooks.

NextSpace asked nine experts for their thoughts about our increasingly online lives. The challenge is how to apply social networking in a digital age to enhance and extend the public service mission of libraries, museums and archives.

Association of College and Research Libraries document laying out a set of core concepts surrounding information literacy for teaching students.

TT1311 - Spring 2013 ION Tech Tools Class Assignment

This article covers a wide spectrum of topics -- from the state of online teaching to emerging technology, based on a study.

Here is a well done interactive tutorial for the library sciences. RIOT = Research Information Online Tutorial.

Consider LibGuides for "just in time" instruction.

Aggregated for library tech services but useful for any online video content creation.

WeBWorK is an open-source online homework system for math and sciences courses. WeBWorK is supported by the MAA and the NSF and comes with a National Problem Library (NPL) of over 20,000 homework problems. Problems in the NPL target most lower division undergraduate math courses and some advanced courses. Supported courses include college algebra, discrete mathematics, probability and statistics, single and multivariable calculus, differential equations, linear algebra and complex analysis.

Check out the new design and features of their new website. This is the future of information literacy.

Creative Commons licenses provide a flexible range of protections and freedoms for authors, artists, and educators. It provides educators with access to images, videos, music, and graphic all with less restrictive rights for using the material. For example, you go right from Creative Comments to Flickr images that you can use. The one caveat while searching for content, be careful not to use a different search term, because you will be searching in the regular libraries. When want search for a different, go back to Creative Commons and search from there.

Learning 2.0 - 23 Things for Teachers is based on Learning 2.0 - 23 Things, a staff development program for the Mesquite Independent School District. That program was based on the Learning 2.0 program that was designed by Helene Blowers and adapted by the California School Library Association and others. Content and style for Learning 2.0 - 23 Things for Teachers has been borrowed and duplicated with permission, under a Creative Commons License

I found this link to a great article regarding encouraging online discussion. I found this using Diigo.

Starting place for explanation and resources for learning objects

about creating learning spaces based on verbs, not tools